14-letter words containing d, a, m, n, s
- indeterminates — Plural form of indeterminate.
- indian mustard — leaf mustard.
- indiscriminant — Misspelling of indiscriminate.
- indiscriminate — not discriminating; lacking in care, judgment, selectivity, etc.: indiscriminate in one's friendships.
- intermediaries — Plural form of intermediary.
- jackson method — (programming) A proprietary structured method for software analysis, design and programming.
- judgementalism — Alternative form of judgmentalism.
- landscape mode — a wide exposure suitable for photographing landscapes
- last judgement — In the Christian religion, the Last Judgement is the last day of the world when God will judge everyone who has died and decide whether they will go to Heaven or Hell.
- listed company — A listed company is a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange.
- madison avenue — a street in New York City that is a center of the advertising and public relations industries and that has become a symbol of their attitudes, methods, and practices.
- maiden's-tears — bladder campion.
- make ends meet — the last part or extremity, lengthwise, of anything that is longer than it is wide or broad: the end of a street; the end of a rope.
- make one's bed — a piece of furniture upon which or within which a person sleeps, rests, or stays when not well.
- maladjustments — Plural form of maladjustment.
- malodorousness — The state or condition of being malodorous.
- man of destiny — epithet of Napoleon I.
- managed forest — a sustainable forest in which usually at least one tree is planted for every tree felled
- mandelbrot set — (mathematics, graphics) (After its discoverer, Benoit Mandelbrot) The set of all complex numbers c such that | z[N] | < 2 for arbitrarily large values of N, where z[0] = 0 z[n+1] = z[n]^2 + c The Mandelbrot set is usually displayed as an Argand diagram, giving each point a colour which depends on the largest N for which | z[N] | < 2, up to some maximum N which is used for the points in the set (for which N is infinite). These points are traditionally coloured black. The Mandelbrot set is the best known example of a fractal - it includes smaller versions of itself which can be explored to arbitrary levels of detail.
- manic disorder — a type of affective disorder characterized by euphoric mood, excessive activity and talkativeness, impaired judgment, and sometimes psychotic symptoms, as grandiose delusions.
- mansard (roof) — a roof with two slopes on each of the four sides, the lower steeper than the upper
- marriage bonds — the strong feeling of being united that is associated with marriage
- mature student — sb enrolled in study after usual age
- meadow parsnip — any North American plant belonging to the genus Thaspium, of the parsley family, having yellow or purple flowers.
- meadow saffron — autumn crocus.
- mean solar day — day (def 3a).
- mediastinotomy — (surgery) incision of the mediastinum.
- medicalisation — Alternative spelling of medicalization.
- meditativeness — The quality of being meditative.
- mendaciousness — telling lies, especially habitually; dishonest; lying; untruthful: a mendacious person.
- mental disease — any of the various forms of psychosis or severe neurosis.
- merchandisable — Suitable for merchandising.
- merritt island — a town in E Florida.
- methodicalness — The property of being methodical.
- metric madness — excessive devotion to metrication
- microsporidian — Any of many parasites, of the class Microsporidia, that are very small fungi.
- middle eastern — Also called Mideast. (loosely) the area from Libya E to Afghanistan, usually including Egypt, Sudan, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the other countries of the Arabian peninsula.
- middle persian — the Persian language at a stage that begins c300 b.c. and includes Pahlavi (attested from the 3rd to the 7th centuries a.d.) as well as the West Iranian literatures (3rd–10th centuries a.d.) of religions carried outside Persia. Abbreviation: MPers.
- midnight feast — a snack or many snacks eaten around midnight
- midway islands — an atoll in the central Pacific, about 2100 km (1300 miles) northwest of Honolulu: annexed by the US in 1867: scene of a decisive battle (June, 1942), in which the US combined fleets destroyed Japan's carrier fleet. Pop: 40 (2013 est). Area: 5 sq km (2 sq miles)
- mills-and-boon — of or relating to novels by the British publisher Mills and Boon, esp in being romantic or sexual in nature
- minicoy island — a small island in the S Laccadive Islands, off the SW coast of India. 1.25 sq. mi. (3.24 sq. km).
- mis-coordinate — of the same order or degree; equal in rank or importance.
- misadventurous — (obsolete) unfortunate.
- misadvisedness — the state of being ill-advised or misguided
- misapprehended — Simple past tense and past participle of misapprehend.
- misdeclaration — An incorrect declaration, especially in an official context.
- mistranscribed — to make a written copy, especially a typewritten copy, of (dictated material, notes taken during a lecture, or other spoken material).
- misunderstands — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misunderstand.
- modal analysis — Modal analysis is the analysis of a structure to find its natural frequencies of vibration.